Clojure Community
This guide covers:
- Online Communities
- The Official Clojure mailing lists
- IRC channel
- Documentation sites
- Clojure User Groups around the globe
- Conferences about or related to Clojure
- Various Community sites about Clojure (subreddit, etc)
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Online Communities
- Clojurians Slack -- currently the most active online community, generously sponsored by Slack -- self-signup at clojurians.net -- partial archive of channels (via
@logboton Slack) - Clojurians Zulip -- free, open source community, includes an archive of most channels from the Clojurians Slack (via
@zulip-mirror-boton Slack) - Clojure SubReddit -- r/Clojure -- the right-hand sidebar has links to many Clojure resources
- ClojureVerse -- online forum
- Clojure Q&A -- the official Clojure question and answer site
- Clojurians Discord
- clj.social -- a Clojure-specific Mastodon instance
- Clojure Camp -- aimed at Clojure beginners, this offers a fun community of mentors and fellow learners, via Discord, Meetup.com, and offers study groups, pairing, and 1:1 mentoring
- See also the Clojure Discussion section on clojure.org for more online communities
Clojure Mailing List
- Clojure users mailing list -- this is the original and still active mailing list for Clojure users (but not as active as the Slack community)
Clojure IRC Channels
#clojureon Libera.Chat
Documentation
- Official clojure.org Guides
- Official clojure.org Reference documentation
- Official clojure.org API documentation
- ClojureDocs: Clojure API reference, with examples
- Clojure-Doc: Clojure tutorials, cookbooks, etc
- Clojure API Cheatsheet (hosted on clojure.org)
- Community Clojure Style Guide
- Clojure Koans
- GetClojure: Tens of thousands of searchable Clojure examples mined from all over the internet.
Books
- See the list of books on clojure.org
Courses
- See the list of courses and training on clojure.org
User Groups
- The list of Clojure User Groups around the world
- How to run your own Clojure User Group
Videos About Clojure
Videos of talks about Clojure are often made available on InfoQ, and Clojure YouTube channel.
- Full Disclojure is a series of screencasts about Clojure
- Clojure Concurrency Tutorial
- Clojure Inside Out from O'Reilly
- Clojure Koans Walkthroughs
- Eric Normand
- Clojure Tutorials by Tim Baldridge
- Practicalli YouTube Channel -- including Learning Clojure with Practicalli
Podcasts About Clojure
- Cognicast by Craig Andera often discusses topics relevant to Clojure and ClojureScript.
- Clojure Design Club by Christoph Neumann and Nate Jones -- Functional Design in Clojure: Group therapy for recovering object-oriented developers.
- ClojureStream by Jacek Schae -- Explore unusually expressive programming language with Lisp roots that runs on JavaScript, Java Virtual Machine, and CLR.
- The REPL by Daniel Compton -- A weekly newsletter and podcast diving into Clojure programs and libraries.
- Lost In Lambduhhs by Jordan Miller -- Featuring interviews with a myriad of guests from all sectors of tech with a special focus on the languages Clojure and Clojurescript
- Parens of the Dead by Magnar Sveen and Christian Johansen -- A screencast series of zombie-themed games written with Clojure and ClojureScript
Code Repositories
Most folks host their projects at GitHub, and most pure Clojure library distributions (with the exception of Contrib) are available at Clojars.
Websites
- Clojure.org: the official website
- Planet Clojure: aggregator of selected Clojure-related blog posts
- The Clojure Toolbox: a categorized directory of libraries and tools for Clojure
- 4Clojure: Clojure exercise problems
- Exercism.io: Peer-reviewed Clojure exercises
Conferences
See Community > Resources > Conferences on clojure.org.
Email Newsletters
Workshops
Core development
See the Clojure > Development on clojure.org for full details on how core development is handled.
Most feature requests and bug reports start life on ask.clojure.org which also serves as a general Clojure Q&A site.